77 Sunset Strip

Stuart Bailey,private investigator of the

Bailey & Spencer investigating firm,finds

that a man doing legwork for the firm,

Charles Dixon,is blackmailing his female clients

with negatives of them with other men.

After knocking Dixon senseless,he becomes

involved with a woman named Ann who came to

see him.When Dixon is found murdered,his new,

mysterious love has disappeared and he is

the suspect in Dixon's murder.Later,his partner,

Jeff Spencer,joins Stu in investigating the

case,dodging the police and finding out

who the real murderer is.Stu remembers that

she came by cab and gets the cabbie to take him

to that woman's home.She is then exposed as

the real murderer,having done it due to Dixon's

blackmailing.

A good episode.

This is a good episode---Warner Brothers must

have decided early on to impress the audience.

Stuart Bailey discovers that a worker of the

Bailey & Spencer firm is blackmailing clients.

In the process,he becomes involved romantically with a woman who is being blackmailed by that worker,and when that worker is found stabbed to

death in his office,Bailey and Jeff Spencer

must find the real murderer before Bailey gets

charged with murder.It is the woman Bailey was

involved with.

A cleverly plotted episode.